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Anomalisa has been blowing minds right and left this year, debuting at Telluride and soon after in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the grand jury prize. Now the rest of us can get a look at the ripped-from-Charlie Kaufman’s brain stop-motion animated story about an isolated writer who pens…

Paramount has shifted the release date of Ben-Hur, the remake it’s doing with MGM that stars Jack Huston. Previously scheduled for February 26, 2016, the Timur Bekmambetov-helmed pic has now moved to a late-summer slot: August 12, 2016.
Also today, the studio confirmed what we told you when it acquired the stop-motion …

EXCLUSIVE– Curzon Artificial Eye has acquired Charlie Kaufman’s buzzy stop-motion Anomalisa for the UK. While Paramount’s Toronto deal for the buzzy pic was one of the few deal highlights of what has proven to be a very slow domestic market, the Curzon deal gives the well-respected distrib-exhib an awards contender…

UPDATE, 1:20 PM PT: Alfonso Cuaron's jury for the 72nd Venice Film Festival spread out its prizes across several well-received titles tonight, but it also shut out some performances and critical favorites which had been among the most discussed. What’s more, it made history by giving the first Golden Lion ever to a…

Venice lesson learned today: While Charlie Kaufman will talk about a lot of things, the meaning of his movies is not one of them. Anomalisa, the stop-motion animated brainteaser he directed with Duke Johnson that received raves just a few days ago in Telluride, debuted here in Competition tonight. At the press…

Charlie Kaufman and his producing partners — former Community showrunner Dan Harmon and Dino Stamatopoulos — do not want to deal with Hollywood, and now at least for one project they don't have to. A stop-motion animation adaptation of the Kaufman-written play Anomalisaraised $406,237 for the film’s production in 60…